Metadata
Title
Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson to Sarah Josepha Hale
Correction - possibly Sarah Josepha Hale to Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson
Correction - possibly Sarah Josepha Hale to Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson
Date
1864-04-15
April 15, 1864
Subject
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-117
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
Philadelphia, Ap. 15th, 1864
My dear Mrs. Hopkinson-
Your letter of March 27th
has been unanswered because I
could not find time to write all
I wanted to say. -
Enclosed is a notice of your
"Hints" etc. written by a dear friend
of mine - who would win your
love - as you would hers were
you personally acquainted. You
will see this in the May no.
of the L. B. -
You ask me what[?]
[?] & allude to: - my dear
friend - I think you will understand
what I am about to
say as the tenderest expression
of my hearts love to you - the
heart of one woman, bereft of
husband must beloved for towards [DE: to]
another - a[DE:s] sister heart in
these, the deepest [DE: illegible] sorrows
that the [DE: sorrows] wounds of earthly affections
can inflict. Those who are called
to endure these must feel for each
other almost like a second self.
Thus I felt, when eagerly reading
your book and noting its
perfection of arrangement, style,
reasoning and intelligent counsel
to young mothers: all this was worthy of my friend,
was worthy of my warmest commendation.
But one lack came over my
heart with such regret as I
cannot express - only by [?]: -
There was no Christ in your
book!
My dear friend, you will not
feel offended with me, because
you know I write this not
to wound [DE: you], but because
I love you with the [DE: deepest] warm sympathies
of my soul. Jesus Christ
was "made of a woman" - He [DE: is then,] showed
[DE: ? a peculiar ?] Himself, while on earth the Friend of
of our own sex. Jane [Jean] Ingelow, in her
wonderful poem "Honors" [Honours] illustrated
this "kinship"[DE: ?] is a [?] and [?] [DE: ?] [?]
The love of Christ; faith in His sacrifice
for us; [DE: and the] steadfast trust in Him
for our salvation, and in His example
and teaching for the wisdom that
will not only make us [DE: as mothers able] [?]
the important duties devolved on us
as mothers- [?] The [DE: ?] source of all
goodness in women. Faith in Christ is
to [DE:?] woman what the "all-pervading and
life-sustaining principle of heat" is to
the material universe; without this
aid from the true Light and Life. She [DE;?]
cannot give light and life to
her world of home.
You will say I offer no
reasons for my assertions; [?]
[?] Faith is feeling - not reasoning.
[We?] must 'believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ," - believe that "The blood of
[DE: Jesus] Christ cleaseth [ceanseth?] us from all sins"
- because [DE: these?] the [DE: ?] Gospel teaches
us These Divine truths, which transcend
reason.
Now, my dear friend, will you
do me one great favor? Will you
read over the [DE: Go] St. John's Gospel and
his 1st Epistle, carefully and [?]
# before you reply to this letter. [?]
then answer me these two
questions.
1st Do not this Gospel and Epistle
of St. John bear witness that Jesus
Christ is God in the sense
of the Trinity?
2: If the Bible is the Word
of God - a Divine Revelation,
to [DE: man] for his religious [?]
must not the [?]time of the
Trinity be a Divine truth?
My dear Mrs. Hopkinson-
Your letter of March 27th
has been unanswered because I
could not find time to write all
I wanted to say. -
Enclosed is a notice of your
"Hints" etc. written by a dear friend
of mine - who would win your
love - as you would hers were
you personally acquainted. You
will see this in the May no.
of the L. B. -
You ask me what[?]
[?] & allude to: - my dear
friend - I think you will understand
what I am about to
say as the tenderest expression
of my hearts love to you - the
heart of one woman, bereft of
husband must beloved for towards [DE: to]
another - a[DE:s] sister heart in
these, the deepest [DE: illegible] sorrows
that the [DE: sorrows] wounds of earthly affections
can inflict. Those who are called
to endure these must feel for each
other almost like a second self.
Thus I felt, when eagerly reading
your book and noting its
perfection of arrangement, style,
reasoning and intelligent counsel
to young mothers: all this was worthy of my friend,
was worthy of my warmest commendation.
But one lack came over my
heart with such regret as I
cannot express - only by [?]: -
There was no Christ in your
book!
My dear friend, you will not
feel offended with me, because
you know I write this not
to wound [DE: you], but because
I love you with the [DE: deepest] warm sympathies
of my soul. Jesus Christ
was "made of a woman" - He [DE: is then,] showed
[DE: ? a peculiar ?] Himself, while on earth the Friend of
of our own sex. Jane [Jean] Ingelow, in her
wonderful poem "Honors" [Honours] illustrated
this "kinship"[DE: ?] is a [?] and [?] [DE: ?] [?]
The love of Christ; faith in His sacrifice
for us; [DE: and the] steadfast trust in Him
for our salvation, and in His example
and teaching for the wisdom that
will not only make us [DE: as mothers able] [?]
the important duties devolved on us
as mothers- [?] The [DE: ?] source of all
goodness in women. Faith in Christ is
to [DE:?] woman what the "all-pervading and
life-sustaining principle of heat" is to
the material universe; without this
aid from the true Light and Life. She [DE;?]
cannot give light and life to
her world of home.
You will say I offer no
reasons for my assertions; [?]
[?] Faith is feeling - not reasoning.
[We?] must 'believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ," - believe that "The blood of
[DE: Jesus] Christ cleaseth [ceanseth?] us from all sins"
- because [DE: these?] the [DE: ?] Gospel teaches
us These Divine truths, which transcend
reason.
Now, my dear friend, will you
do me one great favor? Will you
read over the [DE: Go] St. John's Gospel and
his 1st Epistle, carefully and [?]
# before you reply to this letter. [?]
then answer me these two
questions.
1st Do not this Gospel and Epistle
of St. John bear witness that Jesus
Christ is God in the sense
of the Trinity?
2: If the Bible is the Word
of God - a Divine Revelation,
to [DE: man] for his religious [?]
must not the [?]time of the
Trinity be a Divine truth?